On Saturday 22 December 2007 10:30:45 am Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > > I think I'm getting closer now. > > I removed the driver from the kernel, and installed ndiswrapper. > > I got the inf driver from a guy from realtek, and used > > ndiswrapper -i drivername.inf to install it. > > > > Now, when I run > > iwlist wlan0 scanning, I can actually see my access point listed, plus > > lots of other local wireless networks. > > That's good. It actually receives. > > > connecting to it is a different matter, however, as the connection always > > appears to time out. I'm using iwconfig to manually set the ESSID, wep > > key etc. at the moment, and have tried the trick of setting the speed > > manually to 5.5M to avoid timeouts. > > > > When I try to run dhcpcd wlan0 the first time, I get Error, wlan0: timed > > out The second time I try to run it, I get an error because dhcpcd is > > already running. > > Try the minimal approach first and configure it manually using > ifconfig/route and ping some host on your network (or the AP if it does > IP). If that does not work, there's something wrong with the driver, if > it does, the culprit is dhcpcd (vram USE flag?).
Just to clarify, how would I ping a host on my network? I only have one other PC connected to the router. If that is not possible, due to wireless router firewall stealthing (I have a rather crash-prone Belkin wireless router at the moment), the next attempt would presumably be to ping the AP. If I have an AP MAC address, 00:15:E9:19:73:F2 (for example), how would I ping this? I have checked the dhcpcd install, and the vram USE flag is presently unset. Does this flag need to be set? > > Start with WEP, if that works switch to WPA. > I've given up on WPA for now. If I can get WEP to work, I'll be happy at this point, though WPA operation would be the ultimate goal. Is ndiswrapper meant to work with the 2.6.23 kernel? I don't want to have to step down to an earlier kernel, as that causes problems with changing Xorg configurations, but I could go through the pain of this if it were strictly necessary. Thanks Jeff -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
